unˈslacked, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Unslackened, unrelaxed.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 24 b, God is mooued and mollified..with often, and vnslacked intercessions. 1848 Aird Herod. & Azala i. i, Still their [sc. lions'] fronts were racked With lust of blood, their forms were still unslacked. |
2. Of lime: (see slacked ppl. a. 2).
| 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xxi. (1674) 22 Tyrannies are laid with..the unslackt Lime of..injustice. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 286 Unslackt or Quick Lime. 1760 Brown Compl. Farmer ii. 17 Unslacked lime beat to powder. 1808 Phil. Trans. XCVIII. 346 They..were in the highly caustic or unslacked state. c 1860 H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 63 Neither should unslacked lime..be allowed below. |
3. Of thirst, etc.: Not slacked.
| 1798 Coleridge Anc. Mar. iii. iv, With throat unslack'd [1805 unslaked], with black lips bak'd Ne could we laugh, ne wail. |